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f : a ' I ' w Mr , V -.. .-. I SUBSCRIPTION PRICE PE$ YEAR $1.50 H CASH IN ADVANCE. PURCHASED The North State, Dec 26, 1892 l- . The Caucasians, May 22, 1913 Combined Circulation 15,000 ' A- IT I "I V 1'.'. 01 1 1 1 1 VOL.50. 1 LtwS THE GEORGIA HORROR. WilHanii Denies tl trime Manning Says ThatHe is Responsible for the Death of The 11 Negroes Is Convicted. . , Covington, Ga., April 7. Evidence' - in the trial 'of "John S. Williams, charg- , cd with the murder of one of eleven t negroes, who met death after federal in ' r?!igation into alleged peonage condi tion on hi farm, was concluded today. The only witness for the defense was .Williams himself who told the jury, " I wn as innocent as a man can be." - Williams took the stand as the first witness to make a statement in his own behalf. : , "I have never had any kind of criminal charge against me, or my boys before this," were among the first words of V.'il'iams to the jury. Williams said his four grown sons were among the first in the county to answer the country's call to war. "Like most farmers, I have bonded out negroes and worked them," he con- tinued. Williams said he paid these men wages. He then told of the federal in vestigation that started last February. He asked the department of justice agents to tell hnn exactly what peon age was, and said, on being told that 'working bonded negroes, that he told the federal agents he might have been technically guilty arid "that most Geor j gia farmers were if their definition was correct" ' "You lying scroundrel, you ought to have your neck broke," Williams said one of the agents said to Manning af ter comparing the version 'Williams had given about the recapture of Gus Chap- . man, a negro, who had run off and that Manning had captured. Chapman had - been brought back after attacking Man ning's wife, the defense had explained. Williams sajd that Manning denied to the agents that he knew of the charac tcr of Chapman. "The surroundings are much better than we expected," agents told, him, he said, and added "you may be technically guilty of peonage. The agents commented that the farm hands were "well fed and well dressed," Williams said. . "Mr. Johnny you ain't treated me right; you made me out. a liar before those agents,"' Williams said Manning told him afterwards. - "They told ine I wa just as guilty of peonage as you were' he also quot--d the negro as saying. -- -'J; The last night Preston," Price and Pet ersen were seen he said they came to him and said they wanted to visit their homes but would return. They ask ed for and got five dollars each, he add ed, and he offered to take them to the train. Charlie Chisholm and Clyde Man : ning got fifty cents apiece from ' him, Williams declared, and went off. "That was the lak I ever saw of those boys," he said, referring to Peterson, Trice and Preston. Williams said he asked Manning next day and the latter replied: "They went off last night." - He told of hearing later that the ne groe's bodies had, been found and of his later arrest. "Whoever put the bodies in the river did It for a purpose," he said. "If 1 had ""done this crime, gentlemen, I would have had plenty of time to get where they could not put their hands on me," he i asserted. --. Williams asserted he was "falsely ac cused" and added "what they done to him (Manning) to make him accuse me, I don't know." - "I did not know what he was going to say until we heard him on the stand," he said. . Williams then went into details of Manning's long employment on the farm. ; Williams said Clyde Manning's moth er asked him to take Clyde Manning and others of her childrep, take care of them, as he said the mother could not control them. He told of paying doctor bilk and of trying "to make them do right" "As far as this case is concerned I am absolutely innocent," continued Wil liams. ' ' "That's about all I can say," he ron . eluded and left the stand. Williams in his statement had confin ed himself solely to -the death of the three negroes drowned in Newton coun ty. '..';: The defense rested. Two State Wi'nesses Tcs'ifv. - An Alcoholic Melon. ty ;.. " F. H. Chandler, a prominent melon grower, has contracted to raise one aqre of watermelons for each of three real estate dealers in Burlington, Colorado, Chandler to receive $1 for each melon that equals or exceeds 10 per cent alco holic consents. - When the melons are half grown "Chandler will plug each melon and in- rt in the cavity from which the plug tjpmes special yeast of his own inven tion. The rind part of the plug will be placed, covered with grafting wax and , aled in place with adhesive strips. Ac cording to Chandler, the yeast acts-on .the natural sugar contents of the melon .and immediately begins to develop aT whol in the tissues. , , '. Helpl Help! , They taxed my meager income, they've Jaxed my Campbell press, my false teeth toeyve-levied on, and my wife's last mter dress; they've taxed my coal oil tL,tove' mv beeches and my clocks, ' J"hbrush and barlow knife, shirts and v es and socks; my Ingersol, razor, type Anter and my breath, and they'll keep ' right On A-taring till .- hU hir-H to death And when I lie all dignified wiu, cold stiff, upturned feet they'll tv , i l1" n,y tarP and wings, and make - ;w compicte.-TuUahoma Guardain. AMERICAN PRESS Aisnn atituj The last two state witnesses whs lesti ned today corroboritwl Clyde Manning, na jrj farm boss, .Ma-.-ning told the jury yesterday that mni directed me killing of- the men, three of whom w;.t drowned in Nw. ton county. ' Rena Manning, wif; cf Clyde Man. r :ng testified in corroboration 1 - ,er husband's statement -hat m th Ai.-i reterson, Willie Prei.on and Har:y Price were last seen alie William. r. ried them alive .'n Charlie ChUholn's car. . - t " V . - . Clyde Manning, negro bo is c-f ihe Williams farms, the last cf four wit nesses put on by the state recently, testified in Kruesome details as in- tkr killing of the eleven negroes in which ne said he assisted, at WiWm ciders, because the latter said it meant "thtir necks or yours." According t Mannms's iury, 5lx 01 me negroes, bound and weighted with rocks and iron, were thrown into rivers near the Williams farm, and five met death either by gun shot or blows from an axe at tire hands of the witness and another farm hand.. . Efforts of counsel to pr;vint iustke agents from testifying as to alleged peon age conditions on the Wi'luma iairn were overruled by the court ' Rena Manning, wife of Clyds Man ning, the first witness today, ;--.ifu.'d briefly in support of her husom-d's statement that the night Lindsay iVter son, Willie Preston and Harry Price were last seen alive, that Williams took them off in a car. Manning and Chailie Chisholm, another negro, w?nt with them, she added. i Sheriff B. L. Johnson, of Newton county, testified next, telling of the re covery of the bodies of Peterson, and Price from Newton county rivers. ' Sheriff Johnson also told" of Man ning's identifying the bodies already, found and of telling of where the re mainder were. The sheriff denied aty threats or promises to induce Manning's statements. Frequent arguments . ever technicalities, necessitated retirement of the jury, prolonged the heriffs stay on uic witness siana. WILLIAMS FOUND GUILTY. l Covington, 'Ga, April 9.-r-John S. Williams, accused of ' the murder of eleven of his negro farm hands 'to hah a, federal investigation of peonage, was found guilty of murdering William Preston, one of the number, by a jury in Newton superior court here today and sentenced to life imprisonment. . The verdict ot murder with recom mendation for mercy, which under Geor gia laws automatically carries a life sentence, was read exactly 18 hours after the case went to the jury and was calm ly received by Williams. A moment lat er, as his wife and children began to sob almost audibly he seemed to be struggling to restrain his own emotions. Just after court adjourned, the man's two daughters became hysterical and were led from the room by friends. Williams appeared more affected by his family's suffering than he had by the verdict. He was on trial charged specifically with the murder of one of the negroes found in Newton county. Clyde Manning, negro farm boss for Williams, and jointly indicted with him, testified that on Williams' order he and another negro, afterwards killed, had done the killings. Williams will be taken back to Atlan ta pending the hearing on his motion for a. new trial. Solicitor Brand has announced Man ning will be tried on the other murder indictment against him, but no date has yet been set. Covington, Ga April 10. On the heels of William's conviction it became known that his three sons, Huland, Le roy and Marvin are reported missing. They are believed to have fled either to Texas or Mexico, after having, negoti ated a loan at Monticello, near which they lived. They will be indicted by the Jasper county grand jury for the death of "Blackstrap." "Iron Jaw," and an unidentified negro who met death be fore the eleven murders were alleged to have "been committed on Williams' plan tation. The three sons of Williams are accused of these murders. - j Senator Smopt Believes in Work. l . . "Ran across this story about. Senator Smoot" said Dr. Myers yesterday, "that mav interest some ot our business men and politicians." If was in the New York "My life is very uninteresting," said Senator Smoot "All I do is work." "How much do you work?" he was asked. . . ! Sixteen hours a day; sometimes eighteen." ' , I .L V "How long have you aone ur "Forty years and more." j "How do you like it" , t ni it is more fun than anything else. I would rather wrestle with sta tistics on a tariff than go ro games or play golf. Seven hours sleep day is enough recreation fpr anybody. t v., mver taken a vacation. Neither have I ever been sick." There is not a healthier man in Congress. vl believe that there more Pleasure .' u .Un in anvthinz1 else for the avera man. If be did mbrt work he would be happier. It a to devote one'a time to anything else. Girl, 4, Weighs W Lbs; Ethel May1 Poff, a four-year-old miss. .X bnr.i01 Pounds. Her home is in Strong City, Kansa. , V SECRET TO : HIS GRAVE. :.-.:;,'.. . . :i ..... . Jas. Jones, Col.Dies Nev er Revealed Where He Hid the Seal of the Confederacy. , ... . i -, Taking with him to the grave the se cret of the whereabouts of the great seal of the Confederacy, which he hid when Jefferson Davis was captured, ' James Jones, the negro bodyguard of the Presi dent of the Confederacy, died at Wash ington. City, April 8th. 4 Jones was a North Carolina negro and his body was taken to Raleigh, N. C for burial. The aeed tolored man had been failing for some time, but even s death approached he kept silent about the Confederate seaL Throughout his long life, with his lat ter years spent in the government Ser vice in Washington, James Jones would never reveal what became of the Con federate seal. "Marse Jeff" had bidden that he never tell and he never did. Veterans of the Union and Confederate armies, newspaper writers, curiosity seekers, and curio hunters from time to time urged Jones to reveal where he buried the great seal. They argued that the civil war was far in the past and the seal should be produced for the in spection of the younger generation of today and the generations that are to follow in a reunited country. Always James Jones shook his head and to the end he maintained his silence. The negro bodyguard was with Jeffer son Davis when his capture was affect ed : in fact he is said to have warned his master of the approaching enemy, but President Davis did not escape in time Jones accompanied President Davis to Fort Monroe, where he was placed in prison. Jones was born in Warren county, N. C. After the war he headed a negro fire department in Raleigh, and became a minor city official. He turned Republi can in politics, but always voted for Representative William Ruffin Cox, of . North Carolina, who represented the State in the House in the 48th and 4th , Congresses. Later when Mr. Lox be came secretary of the United States Senate - he brought Jones to Washing ton with him and gave him a messen ger's job in the senate. That was in 1S93. Since that time he has had several jobs about the capitol and was a mes senger in the Senate stationery room until a short time before his death. Unemployment Increased. Washington, April 6. In spite of re newed activity in automobile plants, and a resumption of operations in three or four other industries industrial unem ployment in the United -States contin ued to increase during March, according to labor department statistics. From all sections, however, increased employment on farms was indicated in the verbal re turns made by federal agents, though the actual number of men so engaged was not susceptible of statistical presenta tion. . ;-: The department found that 1,424 in dustrial establishments in the United States ordinarily employing more than 500 men each, had 1,575,786 workers on payrolls March 31 against 1,612,611 em ployed February 28, a net decrea'se of 24,f25, or 1.5 per- cent The March num ber was 40,308, or 2.5 per cent less than the total January. North Carolina reported cotton plant ers were the greatest sufferers among growers of agricultural products. Labor, the report said, promised to be plenti ful at reduced wages. In South Carolina, the report said cotton planters were pes simistic as to the outlook, with farm la bor apparently plentiful. One Disappointed Thief. A man living near Wingate, N. C, recently killed a dog he thought to be mad. The head was packed in a metal bucket, and this container was placed in a wooden box with ice packed around it and consigned to Raleigh for exam ination for rabjes. Arriving t Wingate too late to catch the afternoon train, the man left the box outside of the station. Next morning when he came back to have the head placed on the Raleigh train he found that someone had stolen boxJiead and all, and now everybody is r v ,.u u.- i t ,,.o; won tiering wnai &mu ui ui viuhai appeared on the thief s face ' when he opened the .box and found a dog's head! Mrs. Moore Means Busi ness. Charity and Children, of Thomas- ville: "Mrs. Moore, candidate for mayor of Salisbury, announces her platform and adds:, 4 And for that I am going to fight in my tracks like a bobcat ' Not bob, dear woman, but , Tom.' " The bobcat, Esteemed, is a much fightinger article than the Tom; far. He is greatly heftier, and while Tom acts wild half the time. bob. is wild all the time. No one cares to cultivate him, and it is just as well, because it couldn t be done Greensboro News. To Church in Calico. ; In 1873. as protest against extrava- trance in dress, the women members of the First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tenn, agdeed to dispense with all finery on 'Sundays, and .to appear at church in plain calico dresses. Jobs, Not Wages.; -1 '. One Chicago! labor union has agreed to accept a wage cut, but there are 100, 000 men in Chicago who Ve not inter ested in that sort of proposition what Aeyjacki. , a ,oh at any; old price.- - v CARRIES WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, THURSDAY; APRIL 14, The Girl Who iLeft Her MotlfcrV t Writtea few Tba Unioa Repabllcaa by S. EE.UCS CAMPBELL. "I am not going to stay in this old log hut any longer, mother. I can not stand it" '-, .V' ; "But, Mary, what would Jatk and I do without you f. You must not leave us. I have not long to live any way and Mary, dear, do not forsake your mother in her old days. Do not leave us. It would kill me to be parted from you, when, you and Jack are all I have." ; . ; p , She put her , arms around he only daughter, begging and pleading for her to stay, but all in vain. ; v 7 Mary pulled her arms, away fnwn around her saying: s- ' "You do not need, to beg, that has been your song ever since I was 18; I am not going to be tied to your .apron strings any longer. I am going to see some of the world." ., She had hated Ujc dear old home place alt of her life. Running up the stairs, she said to her mother: "I am going in spite of you and heav en. -. . Catching up her coat and. suit case, she went running down the path, lead ing mother and little Jack crying as if their hearts would break. ; , . - 1 "They may think that I am cruel, but I mean to seek my fortune. Mothers do not know best every time, said Mary. " ' She bought her ticket for New 4 York and was thinking of what a great wom en she would be, trying to forget home and everything that was dear to her childhood days but all in vain. The vision of her mother and brother was always before her. ' Meanwhile, Mrs. Jones, while "look ing for the last time on her dear daugh ter's departing figure, fell unsconscious in Jack's arms. They took her to her room, but she never came to herself again. The shock was too great Her soul took its flight to that home not made with hands where there art no more heartaches or partings. - Mary could not get home, mother and Jack from her mind as she rode away. She reached the city and upon alighting from the train a telegram was. handed Springtime. Oh! Uie glorious Springtime is here for . us to greet, ,- . , With . Dandelions blooming everywhere at our feet - ' , And birds flying and chirping as they go, Beckoning to us there will not be any snow. -.4 The bees are watching over the flow era, Gathering the sweet-nectar with all their power. These are signs that tell us without fail, That Springtime is here. All Hail! W. A. WATSON. Yuma, N. C. Wants It When She . Wants It. When a woman makes up her mind she wants a divorce, it's not much use offering her a substitute. A Georgia woman has applied fo rdivorce from a man ! who is sentenced to be hanged in about 60 days. Kansas City Stir. . SEED Two of the Highest Yielding Varieties Orig inated in Forsyth County: Local Editor: The dogwood blos- soms are white here at Raleigh. This was the old sign for corn planting time. Regardless of the sign, be it located in the dogwood tree or in the moon, farm ers will soon be planting theii; corn. AH farmers ambitious for success with their corn crop this coming season, are giving much attention to the preparation and the fertilization of their corn land. These are essential factors in large yields, but there is one other factor that is equally as important and is too of ten overlooked. This factor, is the selection of a high yielding, variety-for pjan'ting the crqp. Much of the effort put forth in prep aration and fertilization -is often lost bv Dlantine a low vicldinz variety: tori there is a big dine.rence in the yieiq ing power, of many of the various va rieties of corn.' In tui average test for five consecutive years conducted on the Piedmont Branch Experiment, Station farm at Statesville there was a differ ence of 7 1-2 bushels between the high est and lowest acre yields of the 11 va rieties tested. Seven and . a half bush els per acre means 75 bushels on a 10 acre field, 150 bushels on a 20 acre field, 300 bushels on a 40 acre field. This dif ference is due solely to the variety of corn planted ; for each was grown un der identically the same conditions ol soil, preparation, fertilization, , cultiva tion, and season. The peculiar feature of these ;tests Is that two of the highest yielding-varieties were originated in Torsyth county. Sou thern Beauty, the hkhest vielder that lead its nearest competitor .by 1.4 bush els' per acre, was originated by A. Strupe, at Tobaccovilk. So far as these tests are ah authority , Southern Beauty is the .highest yielding corn grown hi. Piedmont North Carolina.. 1. ". . Jarvis' Golden Prolific . Is- another Forsyth county corn and ranks fifth in this average 'test The "variety ranking fourth outvields it oaW one terith'of a bushel pet acre." It, however,ts outyielcU ed by Southern Beauty' 3.6 bushels per acre. It Is an early corn' and this fact accounts for its yielding less than some to, her. It read: "Mother is dead." Tack. . : AlcrcUuI , heaven," Mary exclaimed. I have killed her. Why was I so fool ish as to leave her. She said jthat it would kill her, but I did not listen. Dear mother, can you ever forgive me? I have been so cruel and now it is too late;':-, : .1.- She remained in the city and I finally, in seeking relief in the gay an$ giddy whirl, took up drinking, gambling and dancing, trying to forget her imisery, but to no avail - I : One night as she was returning" from & dance with some friends in a car, she wa the victim of ,an accidenti Their machine was struck by another and she was knocked senseless., When she op ened her eyes, a doctor was standing beside her bed. She had been carried to a hospital She was dying, with; not a friend or loved one near. She1 called for some one to pray, but none could or would pray. '" . j Oh doctor," she pleaded, "do not let me die, because I am not prepared." In her misery she exclaimed: "The way is so dark and I am dying without God and without hope. Never will I see the face of my dear mother or Jack. If I could hear mother say 'daughter, I forgive you, I would re joice." The warning Mary leaves to other girts is to first accept Jesus Christ as their Saviour and live for liiml day in and day out so that when the time conies to meet him face to face, they will be prepared. You will not regret to die, but rejoice that the time has come to go to meet him. Also love your j mother while she is here and you have t the op portunity, for you see what Mary suf fered for not loving and obeying her mother. She saw her mistake, but it was too late. I Let us say in conclusion, that the body of Mary was sent back home and laid to rest by little Jack and her child hood friends beside her mother in the village graveyard. , . A Special Session. , - i j - It seems that a special session of our legislature will have to be called. Since going home and meeting the honest folks, they learned some practical sense that they couldn't learn in a political cau cus under the capitol dome.: Their hind sights are better than their foresights. They contracted debts and sighed obli gations that can't be met without more taxes. Hence, the extra sessiort. Hick ory Times-Mercury. j i (Reports from Raleigh are that Gov. Morrison will not call an extra, session of the Legislature. In other wiords, the Legislature having made its bci, he pro poses to let them make the best of it and the people who elected the members, dig out the obligations.) Local Editor. Preferable; Savs and exchange: "Soon now the grass will grow again, but don'tf let it be under your feet." Still say we, better thus than to have it growing Over your head. Boston Transcript i j CORN. i other later variety, on the principle that a man accomplishes less when he works only part of a day than when he works all day. It was originated by J. Al. Jar vis, and is a distinct pure variety of yel low corn, and, so far as we are informed, the best variety of yellow corn! grown in the State. The Piedmont farper , who wants an early variety nd is hot preju diced against yellow corn, can not do better than grow- this variety, j The fourth ranking variety! is Gram pian, grown by J. K. Goodman at Mt Ulla in Rowan county., For (uniformity or . ear and depth of grain, there is not a, prettier corn grown in the btate. the young man. who will . take this already highly developed com and through, se lection develop its yielding pjower to a greater extent and at the same time maintain its' beauty of ear, will have one of .the best varieties imaginable. He would also make a real contribution to the agricultural development pf his sec- tion'ot the State, urampran isiuuijitiucu hi this average test by Southern Beauty 33 bushels per acre. . ; f ' This article is not written! to adver tise any man's seed corn but; to cpnerete- . . . . , , . ... i m i Iy illustrate tnai we ao nave nisn yrem ine local varieties of corn (developed by our neighbors. There are other varieties not included in these tests equally as good, perhaps better. What these men hav done others also can do.; It behoov es every, farmer, to grow a high yielding variety of com. If he is not sure that his own is the best in his neighborhood, hi fhoulc secure the best local variety ht can find. The three varieties discuss ed hn this article will give good satis faction any where in . Piedmont North Carolina., There are others. However good the variety, the standard will have to be maintained by selection The best of corns rapidly deteriorates unless care fully watched after. The best selection can be -done only in connection with a snerial seed Datch. A farm: without a seed corn patch is in a worse plight than a farm without a horse -barn. -G. .M. Garren,. N. C. Agricultural Extension Station. West Raleigh, N.C 1921 I Oil IHfc FLY, "LAUGH AH!) THE WORLD LAUGHS WITH Y0 V.' What Ota Rieaxs and. Past Pot Captured Of i Humorous Vala From Ota Exchang. j i POSSIBLY APPROPRIATE. Here is a unique and probably ..ap propriate news item: "The church pre sented Dr. Blank with a splendid car. He asks the prayers of all Christian people." A QUESTION. Automobile Dealer: "This machine w guarantee can be stopped in three lengths, going at full speed." Prospective Purchaser: "Um-m-m! which side up?" HIS SIGNATURE. "I beg your pardon,' but what is your name?" the hotel clerk asked. "Name?, echoed the indignant guest. who bad just signed the register. "Don't you see my signature there on the reg ister?" "I do," answered the clerk. "That is what aroused my curiosity." THE CHILD'S REPLY. The latest Boston story is about a small child who fell out of a window. A kindhearted lady came hurrying up with the anxious question, "Dear, dear ! How did you fall?" The child looked up at the questioner and replied, in a voice choked with sobs, "Vertically, ma'am." HOW PA COULD BE DESIG- j NATED. i "Where's your father, boy?" asked Deputy Sheriff, Charles Helms, the other day of a country boy in Riden hour township. "Wall," replied the boy. "he's 'way down at the end of the' field thar with the hogs. You'll know father, 'cause he's got a hat on." HER SLIGHT OMISSION. j H. Was your wife angry when you came home late last night? i W Not on your life. She overwhelm ed me with flowers. I H- How did you get that black eye, then? W, Well she forgot to take the flow, era out of the vase before she --threw them. Houston Post SHE WAS TALL. A somewhat green young fellow had been put on the ladies' hosiery countqr during the noon hour at one of the prominent Albermarle stores. A well dressed lady stepped up to the counter and asked to be shown some hosiery. The clerk showed her a new brand. "How much?" asked the customer. "Two dollars," replied the clerk. "They come too high" said the lady, i "But" said the clerk, wishing to do his best, "you are a tall woman." ; WON AT LAST. , Mabel was telling Isabel of the shy young man that had for some months been "gone on her, but whose suit had languished'' because he simply hadn't the courage to speak out Finally, Ma bel said, she decided that it was "up to her" to take decisive measures. Accord ingly the next time he called she point ed to the carnation in his buttonhole and said; "I'll give you a kiss for that car nation." ' ; Whereupon the bashful suitor's color jrotdid the carnation in brilliancy, but the exchange was effected. Then the young man grabbed his hat and started to leave the room. m "Where are you going?" demanded Mabel surprised. J "To the florist's for more carnations," he called out as he shot through the doorway. i "Them Was the Happy Days!" j Did you know that Abraham Lincoln Was a saloon keeper once upon a time. Well, he was. Here is a copy of the li tense granted to Lincoln and his part ner in New Salem, 111., 1833: 1 . "prdered that William F. Berry, in the name of Berry 8: Lincoln, have a li cense to keep a tavern in New Salem, to continue 12 months frbmsthat date, and that they pay one dollar in addition to the six dollars heretofore paid as per Treasurer's receipt, and that they be permitted to charge the following rates: French brandy, per half pint 25c. i Peach brandy, per half pint, 18c Apple brandy, per half pint, 12c. Holland gin, per half pint 18c. Domestic gin, per half pint, 12c. Wine, per half pint 25c. Rum, per half pint, 18c. Whiskey, per half pint 12c. Berry & Lincoln gave bond as requir ed by law. Some Squeeze. One of the strangest things happened in" Stanly county recently, and we learn that a law suit is liable, to come out of the affair. It appears that- a young man has been waiting on a young lady and they became very friendly, to such an ex tent that he put his arms around her and gently caressed her. By the , way, he is quite. strong in fact he doeanot real ly know how strong he is. He became very much engrossed while he had his arms around her and actually pressed her so 'hard that he broke her collar bone and. fractured a rib; This was found out by the young lady having an X-ray examination. The sequel is to fol low. Piedmont Press. CAUOH "AO tna Vtwt Taai'i Tit to Print' i Reliability th Mats rtar. HISTORY OF Its Origin Not Satisfactory Settled S ome Interesting Facts Concerning the Weed. Perhaps it never will be satisfactorily settled when and where the tobacco plant was first discovered. The Spanish Don, Ulloa, in his philosophic work on the discovery of America, has stated that it was known and . smoked over all the countries of the east long before. the discovery of the New World, but he brings forward very little authority in support of such a startling assertion. Humbolt the celebrated traveler, 'af firms that it was cultivated from time immemorial by the natives of Oro noko. Thomson, in his life of Raleigh, says: f "When Columbus .'iscof red America he found in the religious cere monies of the Indians, a plallt was thrown into the fire,' the smoke of which produced the same effects upon the of ficiating Piache (priest) av in the heathen superstitions of old the strong vapours of Delphoa did upon the Py thian priestess; answers were given, and pretended oracles delivered, under the influence of a peculiar intoxication." This plant was tobacco; which was probably used, also, as a luxury by the natives, for it was smoked over the whole of America, at the period of the Spanish conquest. There is reason for believing that the first time the Span iards saw tobacco smoked, as a luxury, was at a friendly interview between urijaiva, a Spaniard, and the cacique or chief of Tabasco, in 1518. It was from the place of this interview, whicn is called Tabosco, or Tabaco (an island in the Gulf of Mexico), that the plant received its name. In the following year the Spanish general, Cortez, sent a pres ent to his King Charles, as a specimen of the wealth and production of the ter ritory he had conquered for him ; and it was, as a part of this present that to bacco first found its way into Europe; when, through the Venetian and Geno ese traders to the Levant it was intro duced into Turkey, Arabia, and Per sia and the whole of Asia. It was not however, until many years afterwards that it attracted considerable notice. In 1561 some seeds of tobacco were giv en by a Dutch planter to Jean Nicot Lord of Villemain, a French nqhleman who was then the ambassador from Francis II to the Court of Portugal. Nicot sent them to his Queen, Cather ine de Medicis, who afterward patron ized tobacco as a medicine, in, powder ; thence it obtained the name of Herbe a la Re ine (Queen's herb) until her death. The generic name, Nicotiana, was giv en by Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist Tobacco then came under the patron age of Cardinal Santa Croce, the Pv's nuncio who, returning from his embas sy" at the Spanish and Portguese courts, carried the plant to his own country, and thus acquired a fame, little inferior to that which, at another period, he had won by piously bringing a portion of the real cross from the Holy Land. Both in France and in the Papal states, it was at once received with general enthusiasm in the shape of snuff; but it was some time after the use of tobacco as snuff that the practicing of smoking it com menced. Smoking is . generally suppos 1794 MARRIAGE BOND Such as Was Given in Revolutionary Days. "Here is an interesting document" said the Rev. W. M. Hunter, recently, showing a copy of the marriage bonds of Revolutionary days. "This was the marriage bond peculiar in those days," said Mr. Hunter: "Marriage bond of James Wilson and Martha Orr, state of North Carolina. "Know all by these presents, that we James Wilson and David Stuart, of Mecklenburg Co., N. C, in the state aforesaid, are held and firmly bound un to Adam Alexander, Esq., chairman' of the court of pleas'and quarter sessions for the county aforesaid in the past and full sum of five hundred pounds, cur rent money of this state to be paid to the said Adam Alexander esquire, chair man or his successors or assigns. "Which payment welf and Iruiy to be made and done, We find ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators. "Sealed, with our seals and dated this 20th day of February Anno Domini 1794. "The conditions of the above obliga tion is such : "That whereas, the above bondsman, James Wilson, bath made application for a license for a marriage to be cele brated between him and Martha Orr, of the county aforesaid: Now in case it shall not appear here after that there is lawful cause to ob struct the said marriage, then the above obligation is void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue. Sealed and de livered in the presence of - "JAMES WILSON" (Seal) "DAVID STUART" (Seal) James Wilson was great-grand-father of Mr. Hunter, and of Mr. W. C. Wil kinson, and an uncle of the late J. II. Wilson. Mr. Wilson shook hands with Gener al Washington when he visited the vil lage of Charlotte, 1793, says Mr. Hunt er, Charlotte Observer. A Dispute Settled. An incubator hatched out some chick ens at the Watson house and a hen raised the biddies. A ' dispute arose among the boys as to which was the mother of. the chickens but, they finally decided that the incubator was the moth er and the hen the stepmother. Char ity and Children. ' . -- NO. 15. TOBACCO. ed to have been introduced into Eng land by Sir Walter Raleigh, but Cam- ' den says in his "Elizabeth," that Sir Francis Drake and his companions, on their return in 1585, were the first as far as he knew who introduced the In dian plant called tabaca, or nicotia, in to England; having been taught by the Indians to use it as a remedy against indigestion. , James Hardie says: "Tobacco, which derives its name from Tobago, a South American island, was first discovered by the Spaniards on Yucatan Island in 1520. It was introduced into France by Nicot a French navigator, hence the botanical name nicontina. It wan brought to England by Mr. R. Lane in 1586." . "The American Depos," an authentic work, contains ihe following para graph relative to the subject: "The attempt to establish a colony in Virginia is rendered memorable by the first introduction of tobacco into Eng land Cardie, who first visited Canada fifty years before, asserts that it wai used by the natives in fumigation. Riih ard Lane, on bis return from Virginia to England in 15S5 took a small quan tity -with him; Sir Walter Raleigh being a man of gaiety and fashion, soon in troduced the smoking of it into fash ionable elides. The queen alio indulged in its uses, and many antecdotes are still related on the subject. Raleigh laid a wager with the queen that he would w'eigh all the smoke that came from her pipe, this he effected by first weigh ing the tobacco and then the ashes; the queen on paying the wager remarked that ahhougli she had known many la borers who turned gold into smoke, he was the first she had known who could turn smoke into gold ! It was also re lated that one of Raleigh's servants up on entering the chamber where his lordship sat smoking was so terrified at seeing the smoke coming out from his moth that he rushed from the apart ment in the wildest alarm crying out that his master was on fire. Sir Walter Raleigh found tobacco cul tivated in Trinidad, on his first visit ir 1593, but it was not introduced into Virginia until 1616, when its growth was commenced there under Sir Thomas Dale. Raleigh introduced the culture of to bacco into Ireland, o nhis estate at Youg ' Siall, county Cork. It might have been said in connec tion with the above, that Sir Walter Raleigh suffered persecutions and even death for the introduction and use of tobacco in England. Also, that after hav ing been used in England for a timt the death penalty was enacted to erad icate it. Still lafr, the descendants of these same people, after coming to America, paid the passage of and vir tually bought their wives, who came from England with tobacco, t shows "what fools ye mortals be." going from one extreme to another.) Local Editor, Live Close to Nature. John Burroughs, the famous natural ist who died recently, while in a phi!o sophical mood just, prior to his death wrote these words: '"I have never had much money, but I have always enjoyed the things at hand. I have become so familiar with the face of nature that it is as the lace of an old friend and I know and love it in every mood. My years have been full of joy, but they have been years of sim plicity and economy". I have never sat ed myself with anything and the blixnu is still on my life. I have kept young because I have kept free from worldly and selfish ambitions. If I had been mi serly and grasping, I would have been old and unhappy long ago. There is nothing like love to keep you young love for your fellowman and for nature and love is nature s final law. someone omt asked me how I kept so young and I answered that I had been horn young and had never thrown my youth away," (Would that mankind, generally, would follow the above advioe and have less of care and strife and get back closer to nature. One trouble with the world today is that life is too artificial a stress and a strain. If the latter were applied to machinery, it would soon wear out and there is not a more delicate ma chine than the human body and to which we pay little regard until it be gins to wear or break down and we call a doctor in an effort to get it re paired. We ride too much and walk too little. We fill our stomachs with ? all kinds of iced drinks and creams, which impair ,our digestive organs. We turn night into day and in many ways disrc gard the laws of nature and then won der why the people of this day and gen cration are growing wiser and weaker.) Local Editor. Who's 100 Per Cent Amer- ican? WouW you be kind enough to tell me who is lOi) per cent American ?L For the last sixty-five years that question has been asked and no one can answer it. When America was discovered only In dians were here, so the Indians must he 100 per cent" Americans. But where do we come in ? Every one of us must have some foreign blood in us. Well wisher in N. Y. Tribune. i i "J ; i '( i n . i S- r , t : '( I . n 1 - i i ? , s s f j - 2 i J i - i i ij 5 i t T v t ir i J !! 1 1 I 5 Ml 1 i - t i i H i 1 1 1 f " l o ; I' 1 i t; 3 ft 1 it f J k ; i f i i ; 1 j "1
The Union Republican (Winston, N.C.)
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